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In this issue:

• Slide Transition PowerPoint 2007
• Converting Text into Table Word 2007
• Splitting a Single Cell into Multiple Cells

Slide Transition PowerPoint 2007

Transitions in PowerPoint are the motions from one slide to the next. You can get very creative with this feature. The transition feature is in the Animation tab in the transition to the slide section.

The first buttons in the transition to the slide section are all transition motions. You can also use the down arrow keys to see more motions. By placing your mouse over the button you will see a preview of what the transition will look like in the slide show presentation. You can also insert a sound to go with your transition. This button is located next to the motion transitions. Click the down arrow next to sound to see a list of sounds and click on them to hear a preview.

You are able to apply you selections to just the current slide or use the apply to all option to apply it to your entire presentation.

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Converting Text into Table Word 2007

There are times in word that you would like to use tables to sort and organize your document or display a table for data. If you have all of your data already typed in your Word 2007 document you don't want to retype it.

To convert text to a table highlight your text and click on the Insert tab. In the Tables section of the Insert tab click the down arrow on the Table button. Below the row/column section you will see an option that says convert text to table. Click this selection. This will open the convert text to table window. In this window you select the number of columns, how to fit the text, and how to separate the text into columns. When you are finished with your selections click OK and the table will be created.

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Splitting a Single Cell into Multiple Cells

In Excel 2007 you can change the format and division of cells after you have text inserted. You can unmerge cells if they are merged using the merge and center button in the alignment section of the home tab. Click in the down arrow and select unmerge cells.

You cannot split a cell or range of cells that was not previously merged. You can, however, divide the contents of unmerged cells and display them across other cells.

Select the cell, the range of cells, or the entire column that contains the text values that you want to divide across other cells. A range can be any number of rows tall, but no more than one column wide.

Unless there are one or more blank columns to the right of the selected column, the data to the right of the selected column will be overwritten.

On the Data menu, click Text to Columns.

Follow the instructions in the Convert Text to Columns Wizard to specify how you want to divide the text into columns.

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Keep learning about your computer,
Jennifer Anderson
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